the language of livery

[tgv_obsessed]

have just been admiring Tank's squirts of aquafresh on another thread, and it got me chuckling about we use our language- Toothpaste, Fag Packet, Blood and Custard

Are there more choice livery nicknames? Ok there's Barbie, but I mean nicknames like the ones I mentioned that would probably cheese off the designers.

mods can put this in the happy thread if they want to- because it makes me happy.

[Mustermark]

Isn't the design name for the Barbie livery 'Dynamic Lines'. Or is Barbie something else?

[longbridge]

Cant speak for back home but in Melbourne where I grew up in the 1960s the suburban trains were called "Red Rattlers".

[1936ace]

Same here in new, we had red rattlers with reference to the electric suburban sets and u boats referring to the silver inter urban sets

[kaiwhara]

I thought Dynamic Lines was what they use now as their corperate colours?

Isn't the design name for the Barbie livery 'Dynamic Lines'. Or is Barbie something else?

[Pengi]

SWT Wessex electrics (442) were known as 'Piggies' but this may be because they used plastics

[Mustermark]

I thought Dynamic Lines was what they use now as their corperate colours?

Isn't the design name for the Barbie livery 'Dynamic Lines'. Or is Barbie something else?

Yes, that is correct. Dynamic lines is the current livery that i think is also known as neon.

So, Wiki says Barbie is the first livery with the purple with the single big pink swoop that preceded the dynamic lines.

[Greybeema]

I don't even know what the proper name is for the Kent Coast EMU's livery that we knew as "Jaffa Cake" but it was on refurbished CEP's - BACHMANN get your paint set out....

[Tank]

I don't even know what the proper name is for the Kent Coast EMU's livery that we knew as "Jaffa Cake"

London & South Eastern livery.       

[tgv_obsessed]

i rather like the jaffa cake livery- a sort of muted nurofen plus version of toothpaste

[Tank]

I like to see the odd unit, but a whole fleet of the dull colours would send me into depression!!!!  God bless Chris Green for brightening up the railways with such a bright livery. 

[Agrippa]

Years ago the North Clyde EMUs were called the blue trains
... because they were (you've guessed it) blue trains.

PS the Glasgow subway (world's smallest and third oldest )
is not called the clockwork orange as frequently referred to
as such by the media, it is simply called the subway.